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09-03-2010, 12:25 AM
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#1 | | Banned (ABWS)
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Hey guys.
Im about to head into 2nd year at ubc, and currently enrolled in mat200 and mat221 for 1st semester. i was wondering if any of you guys have taken either of the 2 classes, and whether or not you found it tough. im asking because depending on the difficulty of the courses, i will have a good sense of how many extracurricular clubs i will be able to handle. not to brag, but i am pretty good at math, received 93% in both mat104 and 105. please give me your opinion on whether or not i'd find these courses to be extremely challenging/time consuming. thanks!!!
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09-03-2010, 01:34 AM
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I found both relatively easy
200 was just differentiating and integrating but in two dimensions. simple stuff
221 with matrixes...is like solving a series of puzzles. nothing to difficult.
you should be killing them with the kind of marks u got in first year math
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09-03-2010, 11:01 AM
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well the grades (or difficulty) of a course greatly depends on the kind of questions the prof gives you in exams. So i suggest you use the ubc grade distribution system to pick the profs that give the highest average marks. It may sound lame, but getting a straight A transcript when you graduate doesnt just depend on being academically smart.
and careful dont make the mistake of feeling so smart that u dont have to put so much efforts into the course. I made the mistake and ended up from an A student to a B student in the first 2 years. And about the second year math courses, what the guy above saids.
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09-03-2010, 12:10 PM
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#4 | | YOU CANT CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS
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math 220 is shit hard. at least for me
As well.... hard is a relative term - For some people ECON 387 was hard, but I found it extremely easy
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09-03-2010, 03:02 PM
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#5 | | hoppity HOP HOP
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I took both courses. They're not difficult - I did better in these two than I did in 180 and 101, but it largely depends on the prof. I had a first-time prof teaching 221 and the exams were quite easy because he just used questions from the text. If you get Dan Coombs for 200, he's pretty good. Cool British accent, ya. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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09-03-2010, 03:45 PM
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#6 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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221 is the harder of the two -- if you have never been exposed to linear algebra/matrix stuff then it can be a bit challenging since its all new
I actually took the engineering equivalent (math 152) and there was massive scaling in the class -- class avg before final was ~30-40% ... but I cannot speak for 221
just study hard, ask questions, and do assignments YOURSELF and you'll be set!
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09-04-2010, 09:56 PM
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Check out www.pair.ubc.ca to get the past averages and grade distributions of all past UBC classes.
It'll help you pick out easy grade boosters.
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09-05-2010, 01:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Spectre_Cdn  I took both courses. They're not difficult - I did better in these two than I did in 180 and 101, but it largely depends on the prof. I had a first-time prof teaching 221 and the exams were quite easy because he just used questions from the text. If you get Dan Coombs for 200, he's pretty good. Cool British accent, ya. Posted via RS Mobile | agreed Coombs is a cool brit. had him for 200 too hes pretty fair
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